use of some substance find the courage of those who understands fully that you have to live a. real life stories from would need. to be true nineteen forty five gold dot com. the problem here and it being god is that some reporters became not only part of the story but in its main driving force. are responding to levy who discovers how journalists there are throwing oil on the fire stoking the conflict just to get striking headlines. as good obvious foreign cash goes under a log and he experts warn of a legacy of using frozen assets as a long term political tool. and young people in italy will look to inject fresh blood into the country's leadership but some fear it could mean leading to the nationalistic far right.

it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program. fighting is intensified in several key cities in libya as progress the forces strive to regain control reports say dozens of people have been killed in numerous attacks and rebel held areas and government forces largely held out against the onslaught and intend to advance on tripoli meanwhile a mass rarely has been held accountable in support of the regime with thousands chanting procrit off the slogans the national media say the country is at civil war and the number of victims is heading into the thousands there's artie's it's not going to records foreign journalists or green accused of exaggerating reality. of war in comprehensible as it sounds it's present in any conflict just days ago these parents fear for their children's lives today they're taking their pictures

in front of the tanks the desire to be kept truthful laughing in the face of danger is even stronger in the journalists and the conflict in libya is providing a perfect setting for a moment gadhafi is striking back there we're hearing reports of warplanes bombing opposition camps in eastern libya forces loyal to libyan leader moammar gadhafi appeared to be advancing east into areas held by his opponents on t.v. screens have been ghazi look like the center of the rebel resistance but in reality it's more like a seaside resort than a conflict zone hotels a food book to its journalists and residents go about their daily lives here boys are looking for new things to play with toy guns are in ample supply some reports some from been ghazi refer to the treatment in eastern libya as war not a conflict zone where rebels are engaged in sporadic and arsole pitch battles with

pro get out the forces but an all out war i don't have any fear life is going on institutional it's ok you number one is one of the first reporters to arrive in benghazi for several. these she's been traveling with the rebels about two hundred kilometers west of the city at some point the pro-government forces opened fire at her crew a focal point of the report there's a war going on and where the real like it or not there is so there's a frontline you know and there are people with guns and there are two sides fighting these channels know that gunfire and explosions make for strong t.v. but they also can help to blow things out of resources with journalist unable to report freely from tripoli and all the good off the controlled parts of libya some can find themselves type things but the rebel side of the story there are those are just opening up to journalists they just love them and. just whenever they take one city we go with them and then we go into into the other city but reporters need

rebels to here in the opposition's press center and then kaze internet access isn't restricted and the coffee available twenty four hours that message is on the wall and sometimes finds its way into reports of people the cries of each version of the stand so we are really in danger. because we don't trust the driver so we have to be within horsemeat circle so you as a human being you tell me how could you be objective here is human rights with rebels professing their ragin is just part gadhafi is regime to the bitter end no wonder news reports a caring predictions of in an uncivil war yet as the rebels inability to mount a fully fledged defensive becomes more apparent so is the unbalanced nature of the coverage of what media may call good after delusional but in their assessment of the events in libya they don't show

a full grasp of history either. many people think that being i want to respond to takes over courage and hard work but actually. it's much easier and more enjoyable . all the same journalistic assignments especially when they were sleeping they still accommodating the problems here in the big i mean is that somewhere or is became not only part of the story but in its meaning trying to force and instead of hoping that phone call in a confrontation and block showed her that almost calling for it sort of like i didn't see it was the libya and the pan journalist harman snow said as global media reports from libya lack one fundamental thing and that's evidence of an all embracing conflict recently border saying it government forces need enough resources a weapons depot in one of these on the edge of one of the city's weapons depot had already been taken over by the rebels and it was

a government to get rid of the rebels took it over but when get out of you then of course he was the enemy and he was the dictator and he sent terrorists in canadian forces marched into washington d.c. and took over the pentagon and we responded nobody would call the american government a terrorist government for protecting our own interests but that's what we're seeing here with some of these so-called bombings it's very interesting that there's very little in the press terms of pictures of the actual you know buttons and the theme in the reporting that i read today was this idea that people in washington are. conversing with governments in europe about what to do about this. and that and the need for humanitarian aid instead of military intervention well the military intervention has already occurred by that i mean special forces have been on the ground in libya before february twenty sixth laying the ground for what's going on there now they're all over the place there's navy seals coming in

from the mediterranean and there's special forces coming in from me here on the other side where the u.s. has special forces training that is going to open the average american military journals. world affairs. expert steven cohen says what's happening in libya won't necessarily bring about democracy here's some of what i will hear in about twenty minutes time here in r.t. when the new york academic talked to us. state and they are going to turn me in so many countries in my lifetime very rarely does it worked out for. america going to eventually. discredits your prerogative to the tyranny of its being overthrown because if it appears the parliament was overthrown with the backing of the united states in the forces in favor of domestic partner so you're saying that if we do what we're witnessing can happen and i think. it's not clear that these are pro-democracy movements your views are and. despotic who would say want to get rid

of the dictator or getting rid of a dictator and they're going to the country doesn't mean a certain thing to marcos and that's a process. so leaving government as a reporter the leader running out of money whether you count of colonel gadhafi and his inner circle being frozen around the world the u.n. security council has unanimously or to the travel and ask its ban on to levy a new year's regime are he's warning list or a looks at how those resources abroad might be used. but as violence continues in libya the u.s. sends warships and more troops in that direction fueling speculation of a military intervention meanwhile western countries may have already launched a war against colonel moammar gadhafi as north african regime most countries consider. freezing over. and. over

for the weapons here the foreign assets of either libya the country or khadafi and his family but some estimate to be almost one hundred billion dollars it's believed to be spread across the globe or your money invested through the country's sovereign wealth fund everything from a stake in the company that owns the financial times newspaper to land near the spanish resort town of marbury are being developed into homes and a golf course to the oil company beer annex and billions of dollars of cash in banks throughout europe and the u.s. the question now is what happens to all this money especially the thirty billion dollars the united states has frozen the most ever in the history of this country and this type of situation and essentially cuts libya off from the entire u.s. banking system for now it stays put while the situation is still uncertain but what is certain the president of the united states is now in control of this money which

gives him a powerful tool look. for a good deal about this money or some of this money. for. whatever the u.s. . has tried to accomplish. things it's all a mel control profit. and empire it's an empire where the greatest profits come from the military contracts and the oil contracts so they are. will work overtime to. their interest to enact these sanctions the u.s. president declared the situation in libya quote an unusual and extraordinary threat to u.s. national security and foreign policy that's not typical considering there is not a clear aggressive action libya has taken against the u.s. as for libya its financial interests analysts say you could look at the history of

countries such as iran their assets were frozen in the wake of the one nine hundred seventy nine hostage crisis their money that was seized from iran back in one hundred seventy nine has still you know not been returned to the iranians so it's basically time for a plunder play you know if we can take it away from them we will the money is used most often to pay for the settlements of lawsuits against a leader or a government or to recoup losses khadafi can likely has the money could buy we took their nuclear capacity away made promises they didn't live up to them a claim that was a great victory for peace and now we're in a situation where it's clear that oil is at stake the future of the massive sums of money reach for libyan oil is now is uncertain is the divided country it came from lauren lyster r.t. new york. so there now my program here in our team the name of the night moscow nightclub throws a party high old after russia's prime minister about what her foot is not exactly

flattered at being the face of the event also. we go up to moscow's rooftop to see what one of the city's highest flying women is up to. looks like it always decision makers need to watch their backs with more italians shifting their support to find new people to kick start their country of that could mean a worrying lurch to the far right as matthew stevens reports from our own. it's he's dolci the time is turning bitter unemployment is a near record high and analysts believe much needed economic growth might still be years away and more of a fresh scandals engulfing prime minister berlusconi are being reported on a daily basis fueling italians traditional distrust of politicians bad news yes but not for everyone grassroots political movements rather than parties cashing in on this grim state of affairs among them neofascists ones you love it this is

italy's cause a pound visible our plan to take everything this is this queen or court the multicultural multiethnic culture for a bustling community of asian middle east and north african residents living side by side but here in this six story building sense they have courses which is most probably the fast growing radical right. cause of. themselves to us as a pound and unwavering support of mussolini's fascist regime this building is home to seventy of the movement's members the walls are covered with the names and posters of their heroes including some surprisingly taken from the leftist media such as che guevara because a pound support has grown on so i don't employment rate a staggering twenty nine. sense of his hanging youth a currently without a job he will young well of italy is a country of all people it is hard for the young to find

a job or make their voices heard we're not only a generation deprived of our future but also of our present. because the bands present with its brand of revamped third millennium fascism as its members shamelessly put it is one of rapid growth in direct contrast to the country's economy. through its intense agenda of discussion forums is splitting rock concerts and squat actions the movement is on the up and on a recent membership campaign gathered over two thousand five hundred pain supporters on just this first day. this is an association of free men and women of every social class and age we believe that fascism was a grand period in italy's past one of cultural and artistic splendor we can't put a label ourselves as fascists we are witnessing the end of the political parties rule ruben such as this one will prevail against them. members also claim there are an anti racist anti discrimination movement they just playing the political

correctness game some fear this might be the case also cause a pound is a dangerous phenomenon i received threats over the phone and i am opposed public financing to concerts and they organized here in rome they sang me some intimidating lyrics of one of their band songs then hung up the movement's members deny any wrongdoing and came the media and left us politicians are misrepresenting the disconnect between all made because in the electorate in italy is growing with an opposition virtually dominated by anti business going to rhetoric and the shattered ruling coalition seemingly more focused on its leaders legal issues but on the country's fate for some here even mussolini a dead dictator seems to be more appealing matthew stephens rome for r.t. . that's our across our cat. people power in the face of deep economic cuts in the u.s. people of house panel look out whether unionized labor is missing the point. people

fighting for their rights here i mean americans fighting hard enough for a universal human right collective bargaining yeah and you know i think i think americans have stopped buying this argument that it's that it's the unions you know republicans have successfully over the last thirty or forty years up until now said you know it's the unions for all you know they're making fifty sixty thousand dollars a year you're making thirty to forty and it's their fault that you're not making more money people have stopped buying you know we are spending too much money on things like defense we haven't raised taxes to pay for the things that we're supposed to pay for taxes life is like the third rail in american politics right next to social security when a republican is going to say ok not only do we have a spending problem we have a revenue problem. when it comes to branding in advance of drawing crowds of young people politicians names don't usually top the list however in moscow nightclub has hosted

a successful political party but a prime minister's office is less than happy about it even though the club's owners say it was a customer's choice of tribute artist sarah firth went along. like night. light. is exactly this type of. other possibility if. i can find. any. mr prime minister himself and all of us working with him we are trying to be very careful about not letting his name being used. in a proper sense. he himself is favoring the cases where his name is used for the promotion of a healthier way of living for promotion. to children for promoting whatever

useful but certainly i mean using his name for promoting importing in a private club in my opinion is proper. the theme of the party which was. the name of the prime minister was chosen by the public surpassing the names of trigger. this is not a commercial about we knew that it might be controversial so we decided to throw it anyway. i'm like they're only saying that they think that that. amazed by the like has nothing do with mr oh i think it's a really good idea. i think if you could go back to washington. for something. attention i'd be making a ton of money. and i think

a lot of. strong figure has all of. the great. bobbie i was a private is. appropriate whether my was good because it is the private. work of god so it's a good book really a lot of good sides. of the book. i'll get more on all our stories that r.t. dot com we've plenty lined up for you on line a tasty and traditional way of saying goodbye to winter russian style learn about the muslim it's holy week. and discover the slavic version of the movie man it's a grandmother who works or you go on misbehaving children now the striving spirit field is heading for the big screen read more in the art section.

it's the season for one group of people to head up high for the chimney sweeps of moscow it's a busy time what's more you can forget the stereotypes of it only the man with the brooms on the city's skyline as tom gardner reports it's not just guys doing the dirty work it's snowy and cold on this monster roof but this team here to remove snow they're interested in the chilly sort of the bring your this is a very old thing we don't even know if it's possible to. sometimes chimneys. apart from the love of roofs alina is also unusual in being moscow's only female chimney sweep she runs the company the art of the chimney sweep cleaning sort of stacks all over the capital including some rather special ones rearward. we want to inside the kremlin similar mansions in all chechens i love my profession because i

get to see very interesting places others don't get to see more of those stars make covers the chimney pots and consult billy gnome some of moscow's especially complicated flues they say they're full of respect for the bulbs. these models are going to she does a great job managing a team and dealing with our heavy workload especially as this work is usually considered only for men. clearly used to have a male business partner but he didn't like the technical nature of the job and left her years of experience no make a specialist in her field which humour's with the manic at the heart is a cool work women are better in administration in coming up at creative solutions everyone knows our brains work differently for example women can concentrate on many things at once. she's also very proud of her work stablish in a guild with other chimney cleaning companies and she even tells us some of the folklore surrounding chimney sweeps widely believed to be good luck. called out

once an hour man rich and very puzzled she had no fireplace or chimney she just wanted to see intact a real chimney sweeper good luck for some not what going to doesn't need them to others it goes right over their head for her when she's up here she's on top of the world for martin are three. some more of the world's made news this hour now but he's once again spewing from one of the world's most active volcanoes mt killer why is a lie has fired old rock nine hundred meters into the air scientists say the high addictive it was spotted shortly after a crater floor collapsed no homes are under threat but al qaeda has been in constant eruption since nine hundred eighty three. northern chile has been struck by a six point two magnitude earthquake sending shock among local residents although no injuries or be reported and yet the center was in a rural area near the border with the roof of the virgin sea crews say damage is

minimal the area's endured frequent tremors the country's also still recovering from twenty tan's massive earthquake that killed well over five hundred people. the discovery shuttle is about to start her final journey home after almost three decades of space service the crew have said their goodbyes to those aboard the international space station and are now preparing to undock discovery will then orbit the earth for the last time taking a few pictures along the way before landing on wednesday i want to bring this up today here in our team and in just a few moments we'll look at what's in store for leave you know once the turmoil recedes before that we'll take a look at what's happening in business with corinne in just a moment. hello

and welcome to our business update thanks for joining me this hour the ruble has steadily strengthened in the past few weeks largely due to rising oil prices the russian currency has jumped almost eight percent to the dollar at roughly five percent to the euro since the beginning of the year because from the t.v. capital predicts the ruble could strengthen further in the coming months. we have good prices spike due to all these. and we also should take into consideration that every ten bucks increase in oil translates into forty billion dollars. on the current account so the first quarter life used to be. variable.

at least until the end of march and probably. as well. as look at how the markets are performing asian stocks are low on monday weighed by the strong at what price exporters in the red were counting down point one point eight percent and sony are one point three percent so energy development in fact rolls one point two percent prices in hong kong on energy shares are lower because of investors concern over inflation and here we are russia as an archetype closed for public holiday stocks finished their last trading session of the black most of the blue chips were higher last week and we should be up more than one point two percent. continued growth in oil prices and the strengthening ruble look to be being made right this russian markets in the coming week trying to get from uni credit security says they're giving room to the russian retail sector as well. continues to strengthen obviously that's going to prove very supportive for

a lot of the russian consumer names definitely getting more optimistic about making the x five going forward will benefit indirectly from the strengthening ruble still like sperm bank right now but of course i would expect for some of the steel producers to come under pressure being back they have to pay the majority of your fees locally here in rubles and they have to for any of the importing prices will be would be dollar denominated. the unrest in oil producing nations have let prices feeling the heat of the past few weeks brant crude has hit two years and it's currently trading at around one hundred seventy dollars a barrel well we got that over one hundred six dollars a barrel but investment bankers say that sparked it a real production costs for oil marketers and many were is a profit from what is my concern the long term price of the term and normally for the long term much approaching this become the first move on each of those big battle and some of the oil prices much monsters already sort of theme and better

than the world price from the fact that there is a lot of political stability around the world not fundamentally in the soles that's a piece of those bells about the right model parson calls to the world and that's the sort of where with respect to before the middle of the world. during two thousand and six international banks announce they want to cut back their presence in the russian banking sector morgan stanley sold its russian mortgage business last year barkley says it's pulling out spain stand sometimes there has left the retail market sector but i don't say the russian banking industry is becoming more competitive for international players state controller banks have become more aggressive in lending. in this more competitive for much more competitive market. of scale matters a lot. didn't have. enough steel

so they decided to me for that reason that does not mean the russian market became an attractive stuber puts more competitive that's all for this hour join me in just under one hour for more here in r.t. .

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